Raging Waves Contract, Second Layer!

Wei Luo had no idea he had already become Zhao Feiyan's "greatest concern." After seeing the two off, he immediately returned to that patch of woodland.

"So that's how it is... No wonder these shoots simply wouldn't grow."

Clatter, clatter.

As Wei Luo dragged the iron chain up from underground, he pulled the black rat out with it.

At the sight of Wei Luo, the black rat still tried to resist, but after taking several slaps, it behaved itself.

What Ling Xiyun had told him was none other than the key to transplanting Blood Bamboo.

As it turned out, his guess had been correct. The black rat truly lived in symbiosis with the Blood Bamboo.

More precisely, the roots of bamboo shoots gnawed by the black rat would burrow deeper underground, allowing them to survive.

Yet only when the black rat was hungry enough would it gnaw on the roots. Thus, even if someone guessed that the black rat and Blood Bamboo were symbiotic, most would not dare let the rat die so easily.

Thinking of this, he could not help shaking his head with a smile. These past few days, afraid that the black rat would starve to death, he had even left some Blood Bamboo Shoots nearby.

Looking at the black rat's sleek, glossy fur, Wei Luo could only smile bitterly. He had never expected cleverness to backfire upon itself.

Now that he knew this, Wei Luo immediately caught the black rat again and locked it in a bamboo cage.

In the blink of an eye, more than ten days passed, and the weather changed drastically.

Pingjiang Town lay in the south, and in past years, the climate had never been particularly cold.

Yet the climate around the prefectural capital was strange. Winter had not even arrived,